The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*méh₂tēr“mother”
- Latin · derived frommateria
- Portuguese · derived frommadeira“wood”
- Portuguese · borrowed fromMadeira
- English todayMadeira
From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.
Words from the same roots
Latinmateria all →
materialmattermateriamateria medica
Proto-Indo-European*méh₂tēr all →
maternalimmaterialmaterteralmaterterine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.